Re: [PATCH] isar-installer: show progress bar during bmaptool copy process

["'Jan Kiszka' via isar-users" <isar-users@googlegroups.com>]

On 06.03.25 11:28, 'Kasturi Shekar' via isar-users wrote:
> - Added support for a progress gauge using a named pipe to capture and display
>  percentage progress when using `bmaptool`.
> - The progress bar is displayed only when the `bmaptool` version is 3.8 or above,
>  as versions prior to 3.8 has some issues with `--psplash-pipe` flag.

Which issues were these? Is there some related upstream or Debian bug?

3.8 means trixie, just to clearify.

> - For `bmaptool` versions below 3.8, the image copy process continues without a
>  progress bar to maintain compatibility.
> - The gauge uses `dialog --gauge` to dynamically update the progress based on
>  output from the `bmaptool` process.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kasturi Shekar <kasturi.shekar@siemens.com>
> ---
>  .../files/usr/bin/deploy-image-wic.sh         | 44 ++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta-isar/recipes-installer/deploy-image/files/usr/bin/deploy-image-wic.sh b/meta-isar/recipes-installer/deploy-image/files/usr/bin/deploy-image-wic.sh
> index 7f552eee..1265d0cc 100755
> --- a/meta-isar/recipes-installer/deploy-image/files/usr/bin/deploy-image-wic.sh
> +++ b/meta-isar/recipes-installer/deploy-image/files/usr/bin/deploy-image-wic.sh
> @@ -149,8 +149,48 @@ if ! $installer_unattended; then
>      clear
>  fi
>  
> -if ! bmaptool copy ${bmap_options} "$installer_image_uri" "${installer_target_dev}"; then
> -    exit 1
> +# Function to compare version numbers
> +version_gt() {
> +    if [ "$(printf '%s\n' "$1" "$2" | sort -V | head -n 1)" != "$1" ]; then

This should be possible as well:

version_ge() {
        if [ "$(printf '%s\n' "$1"X "$2" | sort -V | head -n 1)" != "$1"X ]; then

> +        return 0
> +    else
> +        return 1
> +    fi
> +}
> +
> +# Get bmap-tools version using dpkg-query
> +bmap_version=$(dpkg-query -W -f='${Version}' bmap-tools | awk -F'[~+-]' '{ print $1 }')
> +
> +if version_gt "$bmap_version" "3.8" || [ "$bmap_version" = "3.8" ]; then

... and will obsolete the second test.

> +    # Create a named pipe for progress communication
> +    progress_pipe="/tmp/progress"
> +    if ! mkfifo "$progress_pipe"; then
> +        echo "Error: Failed to create named pipe $progress_pipe"
> +        exit 1
> +    fi
> +
> +    # Initialize the dialog gauge and update it dynamically
> +    (
> +        while true; do
> +            if read -r line < "$progress_pipe"; then
> +                percentage=$(echo "$line" | awk '{ print $2 }')
> +                echo "$percentage"
> +            fi
> +        done
> +    ) | dialog --gauge "Flashing image, please wait..." 10 70 0 &
> +
> +    # Run bmaptool with psplash for versions greater than or equal to 3.8

The version tests are done above - commenting here is a bit confusing.

> +    if ! bmaptool -q copy ${bmap_options} --psplash-pipe="$progress_pipe" "$installer_image_uri" "$installer_target_dev"; then
> +        exit 1
> +    fi
> +
> +    # Clean up the named pipe after completion
> +    rm "$progress_pipe"
> +
> +else
> +    if ! bmaptool copy ${bmap_options} "$installer_image_uri" "$installer_target_dev"; then
> +        exit 1
> +    fi
>  fi
>  
>  if ! $installer_unattended; then

Didn't try yet, but I can imagine that it looks nice :)

Jan

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